Project Space
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The Project Space is a kind of viewing room. It is the room separate from the main gallery where privileged art buyers are taken to sip champagne and view an artist's work. For the next couple of months The Blue Lotus Foundation will be hosting some of our favourite artists. As a brief, we asked each artist three questions, their response could be in any form they desired. This month, we are featuring the work of dancer and performer, Yong Min Cho
Yong Min Cho (UK/South Korea/Italy)
Yong Min Cho began his dance studies at the Italian dance theatre school founded by Paolo Grassi, Piccolo Teatro, in Milan. After three years of training in Milan he moved to Venice to join the Accademia Isola Danza, where he worked with the renowned American contemporary dance choreographer Carolyn Carlson. He remained in Venice for several years working independently as a dancer at the Centro Teatrale di Ricerca Venezia. Since 2005, he has been living and working in London whilst touring in Italy and South Korea.
Website: http://www.ymcho.co.uk/
Yong Min Cho began his dance studies at the Italian dance theatre school founded by Paolo Grassi, Piccolo Teatro, in Milan. After three years of training in Milan he moved to Venice to join the Accademia Isola Danza, where he worked with the renowned American contemporary dance choreographer Carolyn Carlson. He remained in Venice for several years working independently as a dancer at the Centro Teatrale di Ricerca Venezia. Since 2005, he has been living and working in London whilst touring in Italy and South Korea.
Website: http://www.ymcho.co.uk/
What Fuels your work?
My body, the language of bodies, and how dance moves people more deeply on a visceral level than either words or sounds.
How Do Recent World Events Affect Your Creative Outlook?
Creating a new work during these recent world events, I find all contrasts are extenuated - we are scared to touch, and yet there is strength in nearness and in just being; my fragility can also be my force; whether I am still or whether I am in motion I can express my feelings.
How Do You See Will Your Work Developing?
I remain focused on every moment and every new movement, continually discovering things about myself and bringing joy to my work and to the lives of others.
My body, the language of bodies, and how dance moves people more deeply on a visceral level than either words or sounds.
How Do Recent World Events Affect Your Creative Outlook?
Creating a new work during these recent world events, I find all contrasts are extenuated - we are scared to touch, and yet there is strength in nearness and in just being; my fragility can also be my force; whether I am still or whether I am in motion I can express my feelings.
How Do You See Will Your Work Developing?
I remain focused on every moment and every new movement, continually discovering things about myself and bringing joy to my work and to the lives of others.